This week, President Thomas Jefferson (as portrayed by humanities scholar Clay S. Jenkinson) travels to Norfolk, Virginia as a guest of WHRO/WHRV-FM to appear with host Barbara Hamm Lee in front of a live studio audience.
#1178 Live in Norfolk (Part One)
I hope you will find these stories uplifting as well as funny. I’m a Jeffersonian. I believe we are all on a quest to become our best selves. I’m always delighted when I can be funny, but my mission in life is to provide valuable perspective, lucidity, historical context, and good sense in every room I find myself.
In the course of my long strange trip through life I have had the chance to do some really satisfying things. One of my favorites is to do a varied series of public presentations in a short space of time.
"You think I'm joking, but I wanted a square America."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson goes on the road this week to Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. The performance was taped live at the Bicknell Family Center for the Arts on September 15, 2018 in front of an audience of over 500 people. The event was hosted by Dustin Treiber, the program director of Four States Public Radio station KRPS.
The subject of this episode was the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson, to begin the conversation, pointed out to the citizens of Kansas that he bought the state for three cents per acre from Napoleon Bonaparte.
I am so mighty privileged to have this responsibility, to play this role, to get to look at the universe through the eyes of one of the most fascinating individuals ever to walk the face of the earth.